Black people are under no obligation to explain anything.

Exactly.

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It's right. We are not trained monkeys. We have ethics. I suppose forcing someone to perform is ok if a wad of money is involved ?

I tangled with that one before. She is the queen of misdirection and moving the goalposts. Pretty sure she would spend three days arguing that 2+2= 5 rather than just admit she had made a typo and move on.

That’s amazing. Of course they are.

It’s condescending of a person to treat a tattoo artist like a machine.

He didn’t “deny” her a tattoo. As if the tattoo were waiting in his room to be slapped on her neck. He declined her offer to create a piece of art for her.

Do you have much, or any ink?

1) The customer was the shitty one in this story.

An artist’s policy to not to face or neck tattoos isn’t condescending. Who gives you, or anyone else, the right to demand what an artist will or will not do in their shop?

No, it shouldn’t. There are plenty of artists out there that will tattoo necks and hands. This guy won’t. Full stop. It doesn’t matter if you think his policy is outdated and condescending— it’s his choice, and he’s the artist. If he wants to make a standing ban on doing tattoos of cartoon characters because they…

a preferential choice he is making regarding another person’s bodily decisions.

Adults do get to make their own fucking decisions. They do not, however, get to demand that other people assist them in executing those decisions. If you don’t like a tattoo artist’s practices, whether that practice is not doing face tattoos or agreeing to do white power designs or anything in between, take your money…

I mean, yeah, he could have been nicer about it. But her post wasn’t, “This guy was rude,” (because, you know what, yeah, he probably was, but even she says that goes with the territory), it was “This guy had an opinion I didn’t like, and I’m a paying customer, so I deserve to get whatever I want. And clearly my taste…

I wanted to get a tattoo earlier this year and sent the artist pictures, a description of what I wanted and where I wanted it. He agreed to do the tattoo but I, in good faith, disclosed that I had a keloid and didn’t know how I’d heal because I didn’t even have any other piercings besides a single lobe piercing in…

I’ve had artists tell me that what I want won’t work or they won’t do it where I want it. Rather than “put em on blast,” I considered their professional opinion and either went with it or didn’t. The end.

It’s not a stupid possible and tbh I’d refuse you. That spot fades SUPER FAST and would look like a jailhouse tattoo in a matter of months. Our work is our advertisement. No one legitimate will put something on you that will look like garbage, because it’s bad advertisement. The customer, in this industry, is not…

No, he uses criteria that are pretty much the industry standard. Any tattooer worth their salt will be VERY hesitant to put a neck tattoo on someone who has no tattoos or very few, very small tattoos.

He’s not refusing HER neck tattoo, he’s refusing ALL neck tattoos. This is a fairly common policy in tattoo shops, and she should have done some research to find someone who would do a neck tattoo instead of just walking into a random shop, and then throwing an entitled, hissy fit when the people there wouldn’t do…

This article is the literal equivalent of “I’ll show HIM!” and “If you piss me off, I’m leaving a bad Yelp review.”